{"id":41083,"date":"2014-01-14T06:00:31","date_gmt":"2014-01-14T12:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=41083"},"modified":"2014-01-12T08:56:11","modified_gmt":"2014-01-12T14:56:11","slug":"41083","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=41083","title":{"rendered":"The Kids Are Kinda Not Alright"},"content":{"rendered":"

“Millennials” are rapidly approaching “Baby Boomers” as the most over-doted generation of all time. \u00a0Since the baby boom is slowly ageing out of the demographic hogpile, I figure “millennials” will soon eclipse the Boom as the most hated generation in history around the time the peak of their demographic bell curve hits 45 or so.<\/p>\n

Not that its any more the Millennials’ fault than it was the fault of any individual baby boomer. \u00a0It’s not that they are individually and severally awful people. \u00a0It’s just that they had such awful spokespeople.<\/p>\n

In the case of the Millennials, the spokesman I refer to is Jesse Myerson, whose piece “Five Economic Reforms Millennials Should Be Fighting For<\/a>” (in the ever more vacuous Rolling Stone<\/em>, natch) delivers eighty distilled years of “progressive” fever dreams in a few pages of Yale-via-video-game argot.<\/p>\n

I was going to respond to the whole noxious mess – I spent a week noodling with the idea as I nursed my flu last week – but Walter Hudson has done it, and done it better<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not what Myerson presents so much as what he takes for granted which deserves rebuttal. His proposals proceed from unspoken assumptions which have been promoted in the popular culture by an organized Left, manipulating the nation\u2019s youth into sacrificing their future. Here are 6 lies millennials must reject to live free.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Hudson’s conclusion:<\/p>\n

Like each generation before them, millennials will define their own destiny with the ideas they choose to embrace. The whole of human history reads as a tale of tyranny, of political will trumping individual rights. Whether a pharaoh, an emperor, or a democratic majority, the powers that be tend to crush individuals under a banner of grandeur \u2013 an appeal to greatness, national pride, or the common good.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The American experiment stands out as a remarkable deviation from that dark standard, an attempt to recognize individual lives as ends in and of themselves, rather than a means toward the ends of others. What Myerson advocates is not new when viewed in historical context. He prescribes the old. He rallies for the tried and failed. Following his advice will return us to serfdom.<\/p>\n

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The real revolution, the truly youthful cause, erupts in the pursuit of liberty. A celebration of life and our living of it, liberty unleashes you to be who you are and pursue what you want, demanding only no trespass upon others. That\u2019s the reform millennials\u2013and everyone else\u2013should enthusiastically fight for.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

To get the logic that led from the beginning to the conclusion, you need to read the whole thing.<\/p>\n

And have it ready, in case any of the “Millennials” in your life try to parrot Myerson.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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